Danielle LaPorte is the creator of The Desire Map: A Guide To Creating Goals With Soul, author of the bestseller, The Fire Starter Sessions (with Random House/Crown), and co-creator of Your Big Beautiful Book Plan. An inspirational speaker, poet, former think tank exec and business strategist, she writes weekly at DanielleLaPorte.com, where over a million visitors have gone for her straight-up advice — a site that’s been deemed “the best place on line for kick-ass spirituality”, and was named one of the “Top 100 Websites for Women” by Forbes.

You can also find Danielle on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and of course, Twitter @daniellelaporte — which the Huffington Post called one of “12 of The Wisest Twitter Accounts Worth Following”.

As a result of the fall, by nature we are sinners, separated from God. 
God is holy, holy, holy. Having broken every commandment of God, loving the darkness and not the light, we condemn ourselves and we are without hope, dead in sins and trespasses.
There is a veil that causes a spiritual blindness. We walk in darkness and we think we see clearly. But we are without understanding, having eyes we see not, and having ears we hear not.
But God, in His rich mercy and grace gave us His dear Son, Jesus Christ, as a means of man’s redemption by His death, burial and resurrection. 
Christ paid the penalty of our sin. Hanging on the cross, Jesus was a spotless lamb, crushed by God’s wrath in our place, punished for our sin, that the righteousness of Christ would be imputed to all who believe and are justified by faith in His Son. 
Repent and believe the Gospel for the kingdom of God is at hand. 
By grace through faith in Christ alone, we are given a new nature + a new heart to love God and love His people. 
We are saved from the power, bondage and dominion of sin, the condemnation of the law, eternal damnation and God’s wrath. God tears the veil and lifts the scales off our eyes, shining the glorious light of Christ in our hearts. 
There is no other way than Jesus. 
There is no other light than the light of Christ. 
There is no other truth than Jesus Christ.

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